From 0c85c458895eee4690198bb58d735d46ead0f5bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 22:43:12 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] disable article suggestions feature by default

---
 components/feed/core/shared_prefs/pref_names.cc | 4 ++--
 components/ntp_snippets/features.cc             | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/components/feed/core/shared_prefs/pref_names.cc b/components/feed/core/shared_prefs/pref_names.cc
index e239b42b31ef3..5a5e881272c22 100644
--- a/components/feed/core/shared_prefs/pref_names.cc
+++ b/components/feed/core/shared_prefs/pref_names.cc
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ const char kArticlesListVisible[] = "ntp_snippets.list_visible";
 const char kVideoPreviewsType[] = "ntp_snippets.video_previews_type";
 
 void RegisterFeedSharedProfilePrefs(PrefRegistrySimple* registry) {
-  registry->RegisterBooleanPref(kEnableSnippets, true);
-  registry->RegisterBooleanPref(kArticlesListVisible, true);
+  registry->RegisterBooleanPref(kEnableSnippets, false);
+  registry->RegisterBooleanPref(kArticlesListVisible, false);
   registry->RegisterIntegerPref(kVideoPreviewsType, 1);
 }
 
diff --git a/components/ntp_snippets/features.cc b/components/ntp_snippets/features.cc
index 7d146cd35fd4c..7bc431d6bcacb 100644
--- a/components/ntp_snippets/features.cc
+++ b/components/ntp_snippets/features.cc
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ const base::Feature* const kAllFeatures[] = {
 
 BASE_FEATURE(kArticleSuggestionsFeature,
              "NTPArticleSuggestions",
-             base::FEATURE_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT);
+             base::FEATURE_DISABLED_BY_DEFAULT);
 
 BASE_FEATURE(kRemoteSuggestionsEmulateM58FetchingSchedule,
              "RemoteSuggestionsEmulateM58FetchingSchedule",